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Teachings
Each teaching is a structure for reading a passage, not a summary that replaces it — every point links back to the text.
The Sermon on the Mount
The longest block of Jesus' teaching in Matthew, delivered on a hillside in Galilee and covering blessing, law, prayer, money, judgement and discipleship.
The Beatitudes
Nine short blessings that open the Sermon on the Mount, each pairing a present condition with a promised outcome.
The Lord's Prayer
The prayer Jesus gives his disciples as a model, preserved in a longer Matthean and a shorter Lukan form.
The Ten Commandments
The covenant stipulations given at Sinai, repeated with variations in Deuteronomy 5.
The Greatest Commandment
Asked which command is first, Jesus joins a line from Deuteronomy to a line from Leviticus.
The Golden Rule
A single summarising line: do to others what you would want done to you.
The Good Samaritan
A parable told in answer to the question 'who is my neighbour?'
The Prodigal Son
The third of three lost-and-found parables in Luke 15.
The Parable of the Sower
A parable about hearing, told from a boat on the Sea of Galilee and then interpreted.
The Mustard Seed & the Leaven
Two very short kingdom parables about small beginnings and hidden growth.
The Sheep and the Goats
The closing scene of Matthew's final discourse, where judgement turns on treatment of the hungry, sick and imprisoned.
The New Creation
The closing vision of Revelation: a new heaven, new earth and a city without a temple.
Love in 1 Corinthians 13
Paul interrupts an argument about spiritual gifts with a description of love.
The Fruit of the Spirit
A contrast list in Galatians between works of the flesh and fruit of the Spirit.
The Faith Chapter
A roll-call of figures from Abel to the prophets, each introduced with 'by faith'.
Psalm 23
Six verses of shepherd and host imagery, among the most widely read passages in the Psalter.
The Shema
Israel's central confession, recited daily in Jewish practice and quoted by Jesus.
The Great Commission
Matthew's closing scene: a commission given on a Galilean mountain.
The Sabbath
A weekly rest command grounded differently in Exodus and Deuteronomy.
The Magnificat
Mary's song in Luke 1, closely patterned on Hannah's prayer in 1 Samuel 2.